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The trial of Martin Weiberg and Joseph Pearce (the former for stealing 5000 sovereigns from the s.s. Avoca, in August, 1877, and the latter for being an accessary after the fact) was concluded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I have very little to say about survives this week. Trade is fearfully black, and likely to continue to, unless the returns of gold increase. It is the open weather, and the farmers are making the best use of time. Storekeepers in our…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a special delegate meeting, held at Waratah on Saturday, at which all lodges but the New Lambton were represented, important resolutions were carried affecting the future continuance of the vend scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Deportments of Mines will be well represented at tho International Exhibition, the officers having determined to surpass all previous efforts in this direction. Tho collections of minerals exhibited at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The South Waratah miners having been locked out by the management, in consequence of their adherence to the Union and the vend scheme, a ballot is being taken of the various miners' lodges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KROHMANN'S AMALGAMATED GOLD MINING COMPANY. —Hill End, July 29, 1879.—Since my last report the shaft has been sunk a further depth of eight feet, making the present depth 570 feet; have cut a two-inch quartz…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Rainbow machine the Mountain Maid stone is still going through. Busby and Co.'s machine is idle. There is something out of joint here either in the management of the claims or the machine. One of the proprietors of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The meetings of the various lodges to consider the resolutions lately arrived at by delegates that it was useless to carry out the vend scheme any further show that a large majority are still in favour of the vend,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.—A majority of the miners' lodges have declared against the motion passed at the delegate meeting on the 26th. The Waratah and the Raspberry Gully men stand out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. Boyd has noted with clearness and care the steps by which the public and Parliament have accepted responsibility for the regulation of an industry about which, except in its results, they know as little…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →MR. Boyd has noted with clearues[?] and care the steps by which the public and Parliament have accepted responsibility for the regulation of an industry about which, except in its results, they knew as little…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The difficulty brought about by the action of the South Waratah miners has now assumed a distinct phase. The men desired again this morning to return to work, but were distinctly refused. They will be paid…
Continued on Trove, page 191 →FORBES, Saturday.—Messrs.Davis, Pennington and party have just brought on 21oz of splendid gold, one piece weighed 3½oz. It. was all obtained from a new find on the Bald Hills,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Of all the sculpture of the Greek artists of antiquity none was more remarkable than the chrys-elephanline statues. The Greek words chrusos (gold) raid elephantinos (of ivory) indicate the costly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The gold escort leaving Goulburn for Sydney to-day, conveys 1526oz 3dwt 16gr gold, mostly from Adelong. GYMPIE, Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Near Adelong mundic stone has been struck, which is expected to give 6oz to the ton. The INVERELL TIMES says:—A reportis current that some valuable mineral finds have been made…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →MINING.—John D. Brown v. A. D. Brown, of Shepard's Town, dispute about a race. John Dobson Brown on oath states, I am a miner, living at Shepard's Town; on the 8th July instant, I applied to be [?]ut in possession of a race…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →SIR,—I have the honour to call your immediate attention to the dangerous manner in which some of the underground tin-mining claims in this district have been worked, both at the present and in the past,…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →OUR correspondent writes:—If for no other purpose than to let the public know there is such a place in existence as the Bowman River goldfields, and the shameful neglect of our parental Government in Macquarie-street—this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The latest news from the Copeland gold-fields shows that there have been some rich discoveries. In the Germana reef a party have struck first-rate gold, the reef being over 3 feet thick. Payable prospects have also been obtained…
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